So you’ve chosen WordPress to start your new website. What do you do now? Every WordPress website starts out the same with a basic WordPress installation. From there the possibilities are endless. In fact, it can be overwhelming how many choices you have when it comes to the amount of themes and plugins that are available, some are free and some are not. For those of you that are building a WordPress website for the first time, I’ve put together a list of 5 essential tips to help you out. Tip #1 – Secure your website WordPress is a popular CMS. That popularity can come at a price. Since WordPress accounts for almost 20% of all websites now it is a popular target for hackers and malware. The most basic way to secure your website is to pick a username other than admin. By default, WordPress sets up the initial user as admin. Hackers know this and use this to their advantage. Always choose your own username. Pick a really secure password. Your password should always have a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and at least one symbol. If you have a hard time keeping track of your passwords, you should check out LastPass one of our favorite apps. Stop bots from trying to log into your site with Limit Login Attempts. The plugin simply does what it says. After a set amount of failed login attempts the person/computer gets locked out of trying to login for a certain amount of time. Here are a couple of failed attempts to login to a website. Notice they...